Results for: dead to me
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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 98: November 2022
“no one gives you a free personal pan pizza when you do something you really, really don’t want to do! we live in a crumbling society”
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Seven Queer Horror Games You Should Consider Playing
To me, playing a horror game held higher stakes than watching a movie. In many scenarios, you’re literally controlling the character’s moves and choices.
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Spirit Halloween Animatronics, Ranked By Lesbianism
“I yearned for her howling spirit” sounds like how an erotic werewolf fiction author might describe a Sapphic lupine sex scene.
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“Matchmaking in the Archive” Connects Today’s Artists and Queer Ancestors
This book contains, notably, an essay by Michelle Tea that is still ringing in my ears.
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The U.S. Occupation of Hawaiʻi Haunts the Pages of This Extraordinary Short Fiction Collection
It’s beautifully constructed from start to finish, and while the stories will get under your skin, it’s a welcome invasion.
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Also.Also.Also: How Halloween Became “Gay Christmas”
A look at the history of queer Halloween celebrations and more LGBTQ+ culture and news.
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8 Poets With New Queer Books To Check Out This National Poetry Month
If I’ve given you one poetry recommendation, I’ve held back from giving 15.
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“We’re a Surviving Sort of Species”: Venita Blackburn on Grief and How We Live With It
“I don’t believe in hope. But I’m also optimistic. I have that kind of ancient Greek philosophy about hope, that it arrests man’s despair. It makes you stuck.”
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Mairead Sullivan’s “Lesbian Death” Tells Us Why the L Isn’t Disappearing
Mairead Sullivan’s new book, Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer explores and aims to disrupt our contemporary anxieties around the disappearance of the term “lesbian” as an identity, political standpoint, and theoretical concept.
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Speculative Short Fiction Collection “Sweetlust” Disturbs and Delights
This is a deeply feminist work, but it’s not sanitized, commodified feminism. The feminism here is raw, living, harsh and at times, violent.
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“The Fall of the House of Usher”: Who All’s Gay Here? Almost Everyone
For the next eight days, we’re obsessively recapping and analyzing every episode of the new Mike Flanagan Netflix horror series The Fall of the House of Usher, which yes, is VERY QUEER.
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Congratulations to the 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalists!
Revisit Autostraddle’s reviews and interviews with this year’s Lambda Literary 2023 shortlisted books and authors.
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New Memoir Explores Growing Up as a Twin and Coming Out in Midlife
There’s no doubt queer people face much more social stigma than twins do, but using the lens of society’s erroneous beliefs about twinship can help deconstruct our culture’s most fallacious thoughts about queerness and what it means to be a queer person.
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Fatimah Asghar’s New Novel Is a Salve for My Reality of Grief
Nothing lasts, though — not our parents, not our homes, not our relationships, not us.
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I’ll Never Look at the Ocean the Same Way After Reading Sabrina Imbler’s “How Far the Light Reaches”
Sea creatures become iridescent queer metaphors in this wonderfully queer memoir.
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The Top 12 Queer Novels of 2023
I thought it would be fun to do a ranked list of the 12 queer novels that stood out to me this year. And by “fun,” I mean pleasurably agonizing.
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37 Quotes From Queer Authors About Heartbreak, Loss and Moving the F*ck On
“Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.”
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Short Fiction Playlist: Five Queer Short Stories To Read on Thanksgiving
If you have a pocket of time between tasks tomorrow or are just having a chill, quiet day, dive into some brilliant stories.
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Joe Osmundson on Expansive Science Writing and Living in an Impossible World
“It is tension: living well on a viral warming planet is too much to ask of any person. And yet it is what our circumstances are asking of us.”
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“The Fake” Is a Funny-Sad-Sexy Novel About the Psychological Damage Scammers Inflict
It’s a book about a scammer, but The Fake isn’t trying to hoodwink the reader.